Plates, paper, perfecting—print!
How Books Are Made
English - November 09, 2020 21:09 - 34 minutes - 47.9 MBBooks Arts Business books ebooks publishing websites web development book production Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Even in our digital world, despite the insight of editors and the wonders of design, printing is really where the book-making magic culminates. In this episode, Arthur speaks to Mike Jason, a long-time book-printing expert.
Mike Jason is the director of Academic Press, which prints books for educational publishers across southern Africa.
He takes us through the book-printing process, and discusses the differences between offset and digital printing, where book paper comes from, and the economics of book printing. And he and Arthur revisit a magnificent art-book project from twenty years ago.